This section covers the tasks involved when authoring a content page. There are many additional features closely related to page authoring, these are covered under Site and Page Features.

Quick Overview of Features Used for Authoring Pages

To aid you when authoring pages the author environment provides features such as:

Drag and drop
Components (such as Text, Image) and digital assets (such as images) can be positioned on the page simply by dragging and dropping them in the desired location.

Editing
Once positioned on your page, a component-specific dialog can be opened to enter content and/or configure characteristics of that component (for example, image size).

In-place Editing
Text and Image components can be edited directly on the webpage without opening a dialog box or an explicit save action.

Sidekick
A floating "inspector" window that appears on the editable page. From here new components can be dragged onto the page and page-specific actions can be executed.

Content Finder
On the left side of each authorable page, the content finder provides quick access to a range of assets, including digital assets (such as other images, Flash elements and documents), other pages and paragraphs. These items can be dragged to the page; for example to position assets or create links to other pages.

Context menu
Right clicking on most onscreen elements (for example, paragraphs on the page) brings up a context menu with appropriate action options.

Search as you type
In certain scenarios (for example, path selection in edit dialogs) searching for content through the AEM interface presents dynamic matches as you type the query.